Your Right, It wont stop cheating. It will however decrease it. If People decide to cheat after they paid and get banned they lose their account, time investment, and money spent on DLC and cosmetics. Right now cheating has very little repercussions which makes people will more likely to attempt it. If they cheat right now they get a slap on the wrist or an account ban they can easily circumvent with an alternate account. If we put everything behind a paywall it makes cheating less worth it by having more risk and less reward. It deters people from cheating. The best middle ground solution I can think of is to give f2p accounts a separate f2p crucible play list and paid accounts a separate list of their own. Kind of like how CS-GO did their prime membership. It would keep F2P alive and paid members happy. (Note: paid players would be able to join f2p lobby's for faster matching if they so wished) Long Story short- We may not be able to get rid of cheating. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to deter it. Saying we shouldn't do anything because there is no perfect solution is like saying we shouldn't have law enforcement because crimes and murders will happen regardless. (By the way, you might want to rewrite your second paragraph or add an addendum. I cant understand its purpose or why it was introduced in the first place. I get your talking about hyper-monetization of the game but I don't see what point it is supporting. Perhaps you could clarify that for me.)

1: Cheating has and will always be, like it or not. I know people who, before self unbans and maskers were found, would not only buy multiple copies of an Xbox game like Halo, but ALSO buy another console if theirs got hardware banned. If someone is willing to drop not only 300 to 400 dollars for an Xbox, but also a few hundred for cheats, what makes you think a cheater won't drop 60 bucks or whatever? The only best way to ban a cheater is to ban payment method. To my knowledge, no company has done that except when the credit card is fraudulent, or the check bounced. We should try to deter it, yes, but making the game paid, or even going to the extreme and making it a subscription, won't do this. If people got the money, they'll blow it somehow. Making the game paid for will only make the hackers work harder to improve their trainers so it's harder to detect it. 2: The point is that this game would still be hyper monetized. We got paid DLC, a Season Pass, and Eververse. World of Warcraft has a 15 dollar monthly subscription, plus a cash shop, plus paid DLC. Final Fantasy 14 has a 13 dollar monthly subscription, plus a cash shop, plus paid DLC. Bungie is double dipping the player base already, making the base game paid is just triple dipping at this point. I'm not defending this practice, no way. There are plenty of free to play games that do one or the other. Warframe for example has a cash shop, but all expansions are completely free. And the games that did have multiple forms of premium content also had ways of obtaining premium currency through trades or such. Rift Online for example (No idea if this game is even alive anymore) you could buy a package of their premium currency, then sell that currency through the market place. This is something that won't change. When you fall into the trap of corporate greed, you don't come back out until you either shutter or new management happens. Making the Crucible paid just punishes the legitimate players as now they have to pay a one time or subscription because of a basement dwelling neckbeard. It also turns the game into paid to win. Imagine if Crucible was paid for when Mountaintop and Recluse were first released. If you think the outrage against Bungie is bad right now, try to imagine everyone screaming "DeS gEmEs PiD tU wEn!"